I was very happy to see that the manifesto site, ChangeThis, selected my thoughts on education to be part of their manifesto the Dramtic Impact of “The Silent Revolution”. I already blogged about this on Playpen so you can get all the details there.

I chose to talk about a radically different future for education. Of course I’d prefer you to go and download the Dramtic Impact of “The Silent Revolution” from ChangeThis directly as it will help it climb the rankings, but here’s a snippet:

The real problem for education is that it is caught between trying to run like an old-economy business, whilst having nothing like the market dynamics that those businesses thrived on before the silent revolution.

Although founded on medieval principles of scholarship, many institutions are simply processing plants producing young graduates with the right credentials but the wrong mindset. These institutions have struggled to develop corporate models that are already out of date. Scholarship was so far behind the curve 30 years ago it was actually ahead. Today, like any other service industry (telcos, ISPs, etc.), the more ‘customers’ institutions have, the worse their ‘product’. More students = more income, but worse teaching and learning.

The rest of the manifesto (not just my part!) makes for an interesting read and each contributor had a 250 word limit, so you can skim through fairly quickly. Go check it out and if you like it, please pass it on.